Hiromichi Horikawa

Biography

Hiromichi Horikawa was born on November 28, 1916 in Kyoto, Japan. He was a director and assistant director, known for Seven Samurai (1954), Ikiru (1952) and Throne of Blood (1957). He died on September 5, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved his mentor’s fame. Kurosawa himself scripted his directorial debut, A Story of Fast-Growing Weeds (Asunaro monogatari, 1955), about an adolescent and the first three women in his life. A concern with youthful experience was also visible in Horikawa’s second and third films, Summer Eclipse (Nisshoku no natsu, 1956), a taiyōzoku (“sun tribe”) film based on a Shintarō Ishihara novel, and The Last Day of Oishi (“Genroku Chūshingura: Ōishi saigo no ichinichi” yori: Koto no tsume, 1957), a reworking of the Chūshingura story that focused particularly on the youngest of the participating ronin and his fiancée. Another retelling of a classical Japanese story was the Ch…

Directed

1. The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964) — Director
2. The Lost Alibi (1960) — Director
3. The Last Judgment (1965) — Director
4. Brand of Evil (1964) — Director
5. The Alaska Story (1977) — Director
6. The Militarists (1970) — Director
7. The Blue Beast (1960) — Director
8. Pressure of Guilt (1963) — Director
9. Sun Above, Death Below (1968) — Director
10. Last Days of the Samurai (1957) — Director
11. Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree (1955) — Director
12. War and Flowers (1989) — Director
13. Eternity of Love (1961) — Director
14. Have Wings on Your Heart (1978) — Director
15. Fumiko's Five Benefactors (1964) — Director
16. Musume to watashi (1962) — Director
17. Good-bye Moscow (1968) — Director
18. Without Complaint (1975) — Director
19. The Naked General (1958) — Director
20. The Oil-Hell Murder (1957) — Director
21. The Path Under the Platanes (1959) — Director
22. Mutchan (1985) — Director
23. Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident (1995) — Director
24. School Festival Night: A Sweet Experience (1970) — Director
25. Summer in Eclipse (1956) — Director
26. The King (1973) — Director
27. The Prodigal Son (1964) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Kurosawa (2000) — Self